Harlem Renaissance
A Reading Guide to Langston Hughes
A Reading Guide to Langston Hughes
PBS Crash Course Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance
PBS Crash Course Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance
Poetry Foundation Introduction
Poetry Foundation Introduction
PBS Crash Course: Reconstruction
PBS Crash Course: Reconstruction
13th Amendment, 1864-5
13th Amendment, 1864-5
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Four Questions
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Four Questions
How does integrity face oppression?
How does integrity face oppression?
What does honesty do in the face of deception?
What does honesty do in the face of deception?
What does decency do in the face of insult?
What does decency do in the face of insult?
How does virtue meet brute force?
How does virtue meet brute force?
"Harlem"
"Harlem"
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Hughes Packet
Hughes Packet
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Hughes Intro from Norton Anthology
Hughes Intro from Norton Anthology
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Hughes: The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
Hughes: The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
Cullen Packet
Cullen Packet
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Cullen Bio
Cullen Bio
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McKay Packet
McKay Packet
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McKay Bio
McKay Bio
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